"And yet to the people of only two generations ago this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history. They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. The proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another. For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world. The proles had stayed human." (Pg. 165)
Response:
Winston realizes that that the proles were great. They hold a regular and a great life, like the people of the past. The society that existed before the party took over. The proles hold dear to their hearts loyalty. They don't sell it to the party. He loves that and believes that is it genuine, true and natural freedom. He see's a clear distinction between his life and the life of proles, and his reaction is kind of envious. This was important to me because I was beginning to lose some hopes in the book. It was honestly so annoying that the only society that was first introduced was the society that had ben completely controlled by the Party. I really wanted there to be a regular socoiety and thankfully George Orwell included the proles.
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